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The artist has to look at lif...

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

If people knew what Matisse, ...

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

What's so astonishing about n...

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Colours have their own distin...

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

You must forget all your theo...

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The essential thing is to spr...

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The truly original artist inv...

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

To draw is to make an idea pr...

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Creative people are curious, ...

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Color was not given to us in ...

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Modern art spreads joy around ...

Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

It would be a mistake to ascri...

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision Ђ' a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

There is nothing more difficul...

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Ђў 'Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

One must, of course, have one'...

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Precision is not reality...

Precision is not reality

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The splitting up of color [as ...

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

What I am after, above all, is...

What I am after, above all, is expression.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Beauty comes from the balance ...

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

When a painting is finished, i...

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Drawing is . . . not an exerci...

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

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